Everything U Think Is True The Webby Awards have recognized Kevin McCoy and I with their Lifetime Achievement Award this year, for "developing a blockchain powered way for artists to own and monetize digital work, which laid the groundwork for what would be known as...
On "inventing NFTs" and how we don't have any good way to talk about tech I've been blogging here for more than 20 years, and the only organizing principle behind what I write here, if anything, is a fascination about how we make culture, and especially how we make culture around, and with, technology. Nothing has...
Not For Tourists: Attribution, Provenance and Harm Reduction Anytime a big new market pops up, people rush in to stake their claims and make their fortunes. Our culture loves creation myths, especially in technology. Fables about lone geniuses are ubiquitous in the tech industry, with their fundamental falsity...
Let's Do More I’ve been trying to do more things that are unfamiliar or slightly out of my comfort zone lately. Here’s a quick roundup: I got to participate in Rhizome’s venerated Seven on Seven conference, where I teamed up with Kevin McCoy to create monegraph....
